Richard J. Durbin on Spending & Budget

DemocratIL

Spending & Budget2,989 votes · 84.4/100 consistent

Fiscal expansionFiscal restraint

4,853 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Spending & Budget. 2,989 of them counted toward the score above: 2,273 toward “Fiscal expansion” and 716 toward “Fiscal restraint”.

The other 1,864 did not count: 1,831 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 33 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
2004-09-14	A bill making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-09-14	To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to allocate formula-based grants to State and local governments based on an assessment of threats and vulnerabilities and other factors that the Secretary considers appropriate, in accordance with the recommendation of the 9/11 Commission.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2004-09-14	To appropriate an additional $350,000,000 to improve the security at points of entry into the United States.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-09-14	To increase funding for rail and transit security grants.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-09-14	To require the President to provide to Congress a copy of the Scowcroft Commission report on improving the capabilities of the United States intelligence community.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2004-09-14	To provide funds for the Transportation Security Administration, United States Coast Guard, and the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-09-14	To appropriate an additional $625,000,000 for discretionary grants for high-threat, high-density urban areas.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-09-14	To ensure the continuation of benefits for certain individuals providing security services for Federal buildings.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Fiscal expansion
2004-09-14	To appropriate an additional $70,000,000 to enhance the security of chemical plants and to provide an offset.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2004-09-14	To increase the amount appropriated for firefighter assistance grants.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-09-13	To ensure that the Coast Guard has sufficient resources for its traditional core.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-09-13	To appropriate $70,000,000 to support efforts for identification and tracking for shipments of hazardous materials and continue and expand upon the background check system for commercial driver licenses with a HAZMAT endorsement, and to offset this appropriation with a corresponding reduction from the Human Resources Account of the Office of the Under Secretary of Management.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2004-09-09	To appropriate $70,000,000 for grants to States, local governments, and first responders to purchase or improve communication systems to allow for real-time interoperable communication between State and local first responders and to offset this appropriation with a corresponding reduction from the Human Resources Account of the Office of the Under Secretary of Management.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2004-09-09	To increase the amount available for port security grants by $300,000,000.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-09-09	To increase the among provided for first responder programs, and to provide offsets.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-09-09	To make available funds for certain border and transportation security programs.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-09-08	To prohibit funds from being used to process or approve a competition under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 for services provided as of June 1, 2004, by certain employees of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services of the Department of Homeland Security.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2004-09-08	To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit to Congress, at least 60 days prior to award, a report on the results of an Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 competition, to include estimated savings, performance improvements, and the impact on jobs and Federal Government employees.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2004-09-08	To appropriate an additional $150,000,000 for port security research and development grants.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-07-22	A bill Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.H.R. 4613 · 108th Congress · On the Conference Report	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-06-24	A bill Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.H.R. 4613 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-06-23	An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Services, and for other purposes.S. 2400 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-06-02	To authorize appropriations for a contingent emergency reserve fund for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.S. 2400 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-05-12	To authorize appropriations for part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.S. 1248 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-12	An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2005 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2006 through 2009.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Concurrent Resolution	Nay	Direction not readable
2004-03-11	To strike the provision for raising the debt limit.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal restraint
2004-03-11	Increase discretionary health funding by $2,000,000,000.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-11	To prohibit future income tax hikes on upper incomes that fail to exempt small businesses that file individual income tax returns as partnerships, sole proprietors, or subchapter S corporations.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2004-03-11	To lower crude oil prices resulting from the cancellation of planned future deliveries of oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and using the funding made available to provide $1.7 billion in funding for homeland security grants for first responders, firefighter assistance, and port security, and to reduce the debt.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-11	To create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program by $1 billion and lower the national debt by eliminating tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-11	To create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Indian Health Service Clinical Services by $3.44 billion and lower the national debt by eliminating abusive tax loopholes or reducing tax breaks for individuals with incomes in excess of $1 million per year.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-11	To create a reserve fund to finance an increase in the maximum Pell Grant that keeps pace with the rate of increase in public college tuition, extend Pell Grants to 500,000 new recipients, and close certain tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-11	To restore cuts and increase funding for homeland security programs and reduce the debt by reducing the President's tax breaks for taxpayers with incomes in excess of $1 million a year.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-11	To ensure that legislation is not enacted that increases the number of taxpayers affected by the alternative minimum tax.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2004-03-11	To provide responsible restraints on discretionary funding while providing adequate resources for education, veterans, homeland security, and other critical domestic priorities and fully offsetting the cost by closing corporate tax loopholes, improving tax enforcement and reducing tax breaks for certain individuals.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-11	To provide $60 billion over five years for greater health security for working Americans and their families through a combination of public and private efforts to expand quality, affordable health insurance coverage and cut health care costs by eliminating certain tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-11	To provide for increased resources for medical research, disease control, wellness, tobacco cessation and preventative health efforts including substance abuse and mental health services, establishing a fund for this purpose, offset by an increase in the cigarette tax to $1 and proportional increases in other tobacco excise taxes and deficit reduction.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-11	To reduce debt and require the industries responsible for producing products that contaminate toxic waste sites and industries who are exempt from liability for such contamination, to help pay for the cleanup by reinstating the Superfund polluter pays fees, and to reduce the deficit.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal restraint
2004-03-11	To increase funding for COPS, Byre grants, and Local Law Enforcement Block Grants, and reduce tax breaks for certain individuals.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-11	To fully fund the FIRE and SAFER Acts and reduce tax breaks for certain individuals.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-11	Relative to job creation and taxes.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2004-03-10	To create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans' medical care by $1.8 billion by eliminating abusive tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-10	To strike the outlay reconciliation instruction to the Committee on Finance.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-10	To fully reinstate the pay-as-you-go requirement.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal restraint
2004-03-10	To increase the amounts provided for national defense for fiscal year 2005 for new budget activity and for outlays.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-10	To provide for consideration of tax cuts outside of reconciliation.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2004-03-10	To fully fund the No Child Left Behind Act for fiscal year 2005 and lower the national debt by closing tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-09	To create a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans' medical care by $2.7 billion and lower the national debt by reducing the President's tax breaks for taxpayers with incomes in excess of $1 million a year.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-03-09	To establish a 60-vote point of order against the consideration of any direct spending or revenue legislation that would increase the on-budget deficit in any fiscal year.S.Con.Res. 95 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal restraint
2004-01-22	A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the Conference Report	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2004-01-22	A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Nay	Fiscal restraint
2004-01-20	A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Nay	Fiscal restraint
2003-11-12	To provide for certain capitalization grants.H.R. 2861 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-11-12	A bill making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2559 · 108th Congress · On the Conference Report	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-11-12	To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.H.R. 1588 · 108th Congress · On the Conference Report	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-11-11	To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.H.R. 1588 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-11-06	A bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-11-06	Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding country of origin labeling requirements.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-11-06	To restrict the use of funds for certain conservation programs.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Fiscal expansion
2003-11-05	To provide emergency disaster assistance to agricultural producers.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-11-05	To prohibit energy market manipulation.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-11-05	To improve the operation of energy markets.H.R. 2673 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-11-03	A bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2691 · 108th Congress · On the Conference Report	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-10-28	To authorize appropriations for Foreign Relations and for Foreign Assistance, and to authorize Millennium Challenge Assistance.H.R. 2800 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Fiscal restraint
2003-10-23	A bill making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation and Treasury, and independent agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2989 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-10-23	To fund the Election Assistance Commission for fiscal year 2004.H.R. 2989 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-10-23	To prohibit the use of funds for implementing the 2003 revision of Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76.H.R. 2989 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-10-23	To substitute a requirement for an annual report on competitive sourcing activities on lists required under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 that are performed for executive agencies by Federal Government sources, and for other purposes.H.R. 2989 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-10-23	To provide that Members of Congress shall not receive a cost of living adjustment in pay during fiscal year 2003.H.R. 2989 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-10-23	To prohibit the enforcement of the ban on travel to Cuba.H.R. 2989 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2003-10-17	An original bill making emergency supplemental appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan security and reconstruction for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-10-17	To reduce the amount appropriated for reconstruction in Iraq by $600,000,000 and to increase the amount available to the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps by $50,000,000, the amount available for Afghanistan by $400,000,000, and the amount available for Liberia.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2003-10-17	To eliminate the flexibility given to the President to reallocate all of the $20.3 billion Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds, without approval by Congress.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2003-10-17	To prohibit the use of funds for the involuntary deployment overseas in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom of members of the National Guard and Reserves who have been involuntarily deployed for more than six months during the preceding six years.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-10-17	To prohibit the use of Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds for low priority activities that should not be the responsibility of U.S. taxpayers, and shift $600 million from the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund to Defense Operations and Maintenance, Army, for significantly improving efforts to secure and destroy conventional weapons, such as bombs, bomb materials, small arms, rocket propelled grenades, and shoulder-launched missiles, in Iraq.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2003-10-17	To establish a National Commission on the Development and Use of Intelligence Related to Iraq.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2003-10-17	To provide funds for the prevention, treatment, and control of, and research on HIV/AIDS.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Fiscal expansion
2003-10-17	To make retroactive the relief of hospitalized members of the uniformed services from the obligation to pay for food or subsistence while hospitalized; and to provide an offset for the additional cost.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-10-17	To promote the establishment of an Iraq Reconstruction Finance Authority and the use of Iraqi oil revenues to pay for reconstruction in Iraq.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Fiscal restraint
2003-10-17	To achieve the most effective means of reconstructing Iraq and to reduce the future costs to the American taxpayer of such reconstruction by ensuring broad-based international cooperation for this effort.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2003-10-17	To ensure that a Federal employee who takes leave without pay in order to perform certain service as a member of the uniformed services or member of the National Guard shall continue to receive pay in an amount which, when taken together with the pay and allowances such individual is receiving for such service, will be no less than the basic pay such individual would then be receiving if no interruption in employment had occurred.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-10-16	To require that funds for reconstruction in Iraq be used for certain purposes.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-10-16	To express the sense of the Senate that all countries that hold debt from the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein should be urged to forgive their debt.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-10-16	To express the Sense of the Senate that the Global War on Terrorism medal should be awarded expeditiously to members of the Armed Forces serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Noble Eagle.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-10-16	To prohibit the use of funds for any contract or other financial agreement or arrangement with any entity that pays compensation in the form of deferred salary to certain United States Government officials.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2003-10-16	To impose a limitation on the use of sums appropriated for the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Fiscal restraint
2003-10-15	To express the sense of Congress that the removal of the Government of Saddam Hussein has enhanced the security of Israel and other United States allies.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-10-15	To modify the report requirements with respect to the Coalition Provisional Authority.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-10-15	To increase the end strength of the Army and to structure the additional forces for constabulary duty.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Fiscal expansion
2003-10-15	To amend title 10, United States Code, to reduce the age for receipt of military retired pay for nonregular service from 60 to 55.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-10-14	To require that Iraqi oil revenues be used to pay for reconstruction in Iraq.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Fiscal restraint
2003-10-14	To provide emergency relief for veterans healthcare, school construction, healthcare and transportation needs in the United States, and to create 95,000 new jobs.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Fiscal expansion
2003-10-14	To authorize the award of the Iraqi Liberation Medal as a campaign medal for members of the Armed Forces who serve in Southwest Asia in connection with Operation Iraqi Freedom.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-10-02	To provide an additional $322,000,000 for safety equipment for United States forces in Iraq and to reduce the amount provided for reconstruction in Iraq by $322,000,000.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2003-10-02	To place the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq under the direct authority and foreign policy guidance of the Secretary of State.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2003-10-02	To provide funds for the security and stabilization of Iraq by suspending a portion of the reductions in the highest income tax rate for individual taxpayers.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Fiscal expansion
2003-10-02	To commend the Armed Forces of the United States in the War on Terrorism.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-10-01	To strike $15.2 billion of the $20.3 billion in Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds, leaving $5.1 billion for training and equipping the Iraqi Defense Corps and Iraqi national security force and for other public safety and justice purposes.S. 1689 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal restraint
2003-09-25	A bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.H.R. 2658 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2003-09-23	To strike funding for implementation of the Department of the Interior's reorganization plan for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Special Trustee and to transfer the savings to the Indian Health Service.H.R. 2691 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable

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